Eric Massa Quotes

The rules are written in Washington DC by members of Congress so as to benefit themselves.

It is no secret that Washington, D.C., is a tempest of people and institutions relentlessly seeking power over the lives of everyday Americans.

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

We need to take politics out of health care. Congress will cave to pretty much any special interest on the subject.

Two million dollars is only small when you're talking about Washington, D.C.

Too often, they play to whatever group is the loudest down at City Hall, and they buy them off, essentially.

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

When you start attacking cronyism and people's political interests, it gets nasty.

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now they've gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots.

The usually travelled route for a great many Members of the last Congress was an exceedingly crooked one, even for politicians.

I am doing my best to prevent the corporations and the Republican Party Machine making me the … candidate for the vice presidency in order to get rid of me here as governor.

I noticed that the highly organized lobbies in Washington were producing results regardless of the justice or injustice of their demand.

People who think the might in Washington can be persuaded, or corrupted if you will, by anything less than voters just doesn’t understand what its about and never will. They don’t know what Washington juice is made of.

Washington is a pool of money surrounded by people who want some.

Health-care policy is choked by an aristocracy of special interests. If we don't take these groups on and rein in costs, health care will continue to bleed our economy white.

Politics is such a torment that I would advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

The lobbyists have erected a brick wall around Washington DC—a wall that keeps them in and keeps you out.

Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman ...

Politics these days is a disgusting game of mudslinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims.

Many Americans have sensed there is a very corrupt pay-to-play system going on in Washington.

Show me a supposedly 'unfixable' problem in Washington, and I'll show you the political corruption standing in the way.

I've been able to see some very impressive people that are in politics, and I've been able to see a lot more people that are much less impressive that I don't know if I'd want to spend my life working with. When I see sort of how the sausage is made, it's not very pretty.

In politics, when you become serious, you become a threat to somebody. And they usually aren't too nice about it.

The healthcare bill not only is a monstrosity in terms of growing the government and cutting out the private sector, the way it was passed was sleazy. Every old Washington trick was used to pass the healthcare bill.

I'm not consumed with political machinations.